| 101 |
recordlabel: WEA 6
chartposition: RandB #54, UK #6, US #5, US dance #10, US AC #38, US rock #21
writtenby: Howard Jones
album: Dream into Action
|
| 102 |
recordlabel: Elektra 5
chartposition: RandB #37, US dance #21, UK #89
writtenby: George Duke
album: Thief in the Night
|
| 103 |
recordlabel: Elektra 5082
chartposition: RandB #36
writtenby: David Wolinski
album: Take No Prisoners
|
| 104 |
recordlabel: EMI 5514 (UK)
chartposition: UK #68
writtenby: Jimmy Ruffin
|
| 105 |
recordlabel: Club 11 (UK)
chartposition: UK #13
writtenby: Isaac Hayes
album: Eddy and the Soul Band
|
| 106 |
recordlabel: Arista 9256
chartposition: RandB #17, US #41, US dance #4
writtenby: Jermaine Stewart, J. David Lindsay & G. Craig
album: The Word Is Out
|
| 107 |
recordlabel: RCA 14178
chartposition: RandB #40, UK #58, US #20, US AC #12, US rock #43
writtenby: Smokey Robinson & Bobby Rogers
album: Hall and Oates Live at the Apollo
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recordlabel: Bpop 02 (UK)
writtenby: S. Wallace
|
| 1 |
recordlabel: MCA 23600
chartposition: RandB #78, UK #53
writtenby: Colonel Abrams and Marston Freeman
album: Colonel Abrams
|
| 2 |
recordlabel: Portrait 05713
chartposition: RandB #3, US #5, UK #31, US AC #1
writtenby: Sade Adu & Martin Ditcham
album: Promise
|
| 3 |
recordlabel: Pop Art 1413
chartposition: RandB #46
writtenby: C. James, S. Denton
comments: [hip hop]
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| 4 |
recordlabel: Reality 242
chartposition: RandB #4, UK #7
writtenby: Doug E. Fresh (as Douglas E. Davis) & Slick Rick (as Ricky Walters)
album: Oh, My God!
comments: [hip hop]
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| 5 |
recordlabel: Paisley Park 28953
chartposition: RandB #9, US #63, US dance #10
writtenby: Prince (uncredited), Jerome Benton and Jellybean Johnson
album: The Family
comments: charted as The Screams of Passion / Yes in US dance charts
|
| 6 |
recordlabel: 21 Records 857
chartposition: RandB #92
writtenby: Eddie Floyd, Steve Cropper, Isaac Hayes and David Porter
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| 7 |
recordlabel: Reality 239
chartposition: RandB #45
writtenby: Charles Pettiford, Gregory Wigfall and Richard Fowler
comments: [hip hop]
|
| 8 |
recordlabel: Golden Boy 126
chartposition: RandB #76
|
| 9 |
recordlabel: Select 62256
chartposition: RandB #44
comments: [hip hop]
|
| 10 |
recordlabel: Chrysalis 42876
chartposition: RandB #81, US dance #22, US #1, UK #9, US AC #6, US rock #1
writtenby: Huey Lewis, Chris Hayes & Johnny Colla
album: Back to the Future
|
| 11 |
recordlabel: Mirage 99639
chartposition: RandB #21, US #108, US dance #22
writtenby: David Frank and Mic Murphy
album: Pleasure Seekers
|
| 12 |
recordlabel: Music Spec. 108
chartposition: RandB #77
writtenby: Tony Butler
|
| 13 |
recordlabel: Motown 1826
chartposition: RandB #33
writtenby: Joey Gallo and Lushus Daim
album: More Than You Can Handle
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 14 |
recordlabel: Warner 28899
chartposition: RandB #3, US #65, US dance #14
writtenby: Morris Day
album: The Color of Success
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recordlabel: Epic
writtenby: Luther Vandross, Marcus Miller
album: The Night I Fell In Love
comments: [album cut]
mpcode: 95jNdtcTMzQ
|
| 1 |
recordlabel: Warner 29017
chartposition: RandB #82, US Dance #21
writtenby: Narada Michael Walden, Jeffrey Cohen and Preston Glass
album: The Nature of Things
|
| 2 |
recordlabel: 10 Records 52 (UK)
chartposition: UK #57
writtenby: Rodney Brown
|
| 3 |
recordlabel: Jive 9421
chartposition: US AC #24
writtenby: John Lennon and Paul McCartney
album: Suddenly
comments: [ballad]
|
| 4 |
recordlabel: Supreme 102 (UK)
chartposition: UK #42
writtenby: Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman
|
| 5 |
recordlabel: Qwest 28788
chartposition: RandB #13, US #55, US Dance #16
writtenby: Jimmy Jam (as James Harris) and Terry Lewis
album: Gettin' Away with Murder
|
| 6 |
recordlabel: Red Label 71008
chartposition: US Dance #17
writtenby: Lenore Bangs, Michael Rochelle and Thomas Berry
album: My Heart's on Fire
|
| 7 |
recordlabel: Gordy 1822
chartposition: RandB #29, US #75, US AC #17
writtenby: Diane Warren
album: Rhythm of the Night
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 8 |
recordlabel: Sutra 144
chartposition: RandB #27
writtenby: Kool Rock Ski, Buff Love, Kurtis Blow and Prince Markie Dee
album: The Fat Boys Are Back
comments: [hip hop]
|
| 9 |
recordlabel: Columbia 05435
chartposition: RandB #10, US Dance #8
writtenby: Prince
album: A.C.
|
| 10 |
recordlabel: Warner 28809
chartposition: RandB #15
writtenby: Morris Day
album: The Color of Success
|
| 11 |
recordlabel: Warner 28729
chartposition: RandB #34
writtenby: Morris Day
album: The Color of Success
|
| 12 |
recordlabel: AandM 9820
chartposition: RandB #7, US dance #7, UK #98, US #38
writtenby: Raymond Jones
album: Don't Stop
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 13 |
recordlabel: Warner 29094
chartposition: RandB #33, US dance #6, US #36
writtenby: Prince & Jesse Johnson
album: Ice Cream Castle
|
| 14 |
recordlabel: Private I 04819
chartposition: RandB #87, US dance #31
writtenby: Eric Kaz and Marvin Morrow
|
| 15 |
recordlabel: Jive 85 (UK)
chartposition: UK #77
writtenby: Richard Jon Smith
|
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recordlabel: Wilbe 85 201
writtenby: William Bell, Albert Burroughs
album: Passion
|
| 1 |
recordlabel: Arista 9863
chartposition: RandB #1, UK #16, US #1, US AC #1
writtenby: Burt Bacharach & Carole Bayer Sager
album: Friends
comments: [ballad] featuring Elton John, Stevie Wonder & Gladys Knight
|
| 2 |
recordlabel: Golden Boy 7125
chartposition: RandB #74
writtenby: Sam Brown
|
| 3 |
recordlabel: Mercury 884 189
chartposition: RandB #47
writtenby: C. Martin, V. Ross Redding and M. Madden
|
| 4 |
recordlabel: Arista 9414
chartposition: RandB #72
writtenby: David Lesley and Randy Goodrum
album: Tell Me Tomorrow
|
| 5 |
recordlabel: Ten Records 74
chartposition: RandB #8, UK #54, US Dance #14
writtenby: Tony Henry
album: Children of the Night
|
| 6 |
recordlabel: RCA 14032
chartposition: RandB #13
writtenby: Bernard Edwards and Denzil Miller
album: Swept Away
|
| 7 |
recordlabel: Critique 712
chartposition: RandB #64
writtenby: Nick Braddy and Richard Bassoff
album: Teaser
|
| 8 |
recordlabel: London 882 070
chartposition: US dance #1, RandB #80, UK #17
writtenby: Steve Harvey, Robin Achampong & Delroy Murray
album: Total Contrast
comments: [disco funk]
|
| 9 |
recordlabel: Atlantic 89549
chartposition: RandB #62, UK #86
weeksinr&bchart: 10
writtenby: Woody Cunningham
album: Seeekret
|
| 10 |
recordlabel: Elektra 69632
chartposition: RandB #39, US #78, US AC #37
writtenby: Billy Livsey and Sue Shifrin
album: Take No Prisoners
|
| 11 |
recordlabel: Warner 7 29079
chartposition: RandB #40, US #25
writtenby: Prince
album: Purple Rain
|
| 12 |
recordlabel: Cooltempo 106(UK)
chartposition: UK #100
writtenby: Ken Kessie and Morey Goldstein
album: M 1015
comments: [disco, dance]
|
| 13 |
recordlabel: Virgin 775 (UK)
chartposition: UK #82
|
| 14 |
recordlabel: Atlantic 89551
chartposition: RandB #27, US #107
writtenby: R.J. Rice (as The Wiz)
album: R.J.'s Latest Arrival [1985 album]
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recordlabel: Polydor 883 273-7
writtenby: Maurice Starr
album: Smile
mpcode: EvQoTova2ko
|
| 1 |
recordlabel: Virgin 759 (UK)
chartposition: UK #83
writtenby: Simon Booth
album: Working Nights
|
| 2 |
recordlabel: Atlantic 89560
chartposition: RandB #8, US dance #4, UK #12, US #1, US AC #30, US rock #10
writtenby: Phil Collins
album: No Jacket Required
|
| 3 |
recordlabel: Solar 69615
chartposition: RandB #66
writtenby: Babyface (as Kenny Edmonds), Carl Greene, L.A. Reid and Kevin
album: Material Thangz
|
| 4 |
recordlabel: Columbia 04942
chartposition: RandB #86
writtenby: Stan Sheppard, Chauncey Matthews and Billy Sheppard
album: This Is the Real Thing
|
| 5 |
recordlabel: Manhattan 50017
chartposition: RandB #21, UK #21, US #38, US dance #48, US rock #41
writtenby: Steven Van Zandt
album: Sun City: Artists United Against Apartheid
|
| 6 |
recordlabel: Jive 9323
chartposition: RandB #5, UK #4, US #4, US AC #1
writtenby: Billy Ocean & Keith Diamond
album: Suddenly
comments: [love ballad]
|
| 7 |
recordlabel: Mirage 99631
chartposition: RandB #26, US #103, UK #46, US Dance #25
writtenby: Curtis Josephs and Ed Chisolm
album: Do You Wanna Get Away
|
| 8 |
recordlabel: Red Label 71000
chartposition: RandB #67
writtenby: Billy Osborne and Attala Zane Giles
album: Stranger in the Night
|
| 9 |
recordlabel: Elekra 5058
chartposition: RandB #44
writtenby: Cecil Womack, Linda Womack and Bobby Womack
album: Radio M.U.S.C. Man
|
| 10 |
recordlabel: 4th and Bway 418
chartposition: RandB #36, US dance #14
writtenby: Ronald Miller [Ronald Dean Miller] (as Ron Dean Miller) and Nancy McDuffy
album: Sing, Dance, Rap, Romance
|
| 11 |
recordlabel: Columbia 04825
chartposition: RandB #73
writtenby: Rick James
album: Too Sharp
|
| 12 |
recordlabel: MCA 52610
chartposition: RandB #5, US #41, US Dance #18
writtenby: Dan Sembello and Allee Willis
album: Beverly Hills Cop: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
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recordlabel: Coco Plum 7601
writtenby: Scott, Oskar, Jordan, Rabb, Allen, Hammon
album: Where There's Smoke
|
| 1 |
recordlabel: 4th and Bway 5
chartposition: RandB #80
writtenby: Robert Reed, Tony Fisher and James Avery
album: Good To Go Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
comments: [hip hop, funk]
|
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recordlabel: Malaco 2118
writtenby: George Jackson, Earl Forest, Robert Miller
album: This Is Your Night
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 1 |
recordlabel: Arista 9311
chartposition: RandB #31, US Dance #4
writtenby: Jeff Lorber and Anita Pointer
album: Step By Step
|
| 2 |
recordlabel: MCA 936
chartposition: UK #65
album: Strange Reflections
|
| 3 |
recordlabel: Motown 1777
chartposition: RandB #68
writtenby: Gregg Crockett, Sharon Barnes and Gwen Gordy (as Gwen Gordy Fuqua)
album: That Look
comments: [Motown Sound] [from the movie The Last Dragon]
|
| 4 |
recordlabel: Columbia 05571
chartposition: RandB #6, US #50, US AC #11
writtenby: Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
album: Maurice White
|
| 5 |
recordlabel: AandM 2752
chartposition: RandB #29, UK #91
writtenby: Howard Jones and Jerry Knight
album: The Vision
|
| 6 |
recordlabel: MCA 52731
chartposition: RandB #15, US dance #7
writtenby: Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers
album: Stephanie Mills
|
| 7 |
recordlabel: Gordy 1806
chartposition: RandB #41
writtenby: Rick James
album: Glow
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 8 |
recordlabel: Abstract Dance 3 (UK)
chartposition: UK #11
writtenby: Steve McIntosh
album: Have A Good Forever...
|
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recordlabel: Streetwave 60 (UK)
writtenby: Lonnie Johnson
|
| 1 |
recordlabel: Record Shack 41 (UK)
chartposition: UK #100
writtenby: Ian Levine and Fiachra Trench
album: Standing at the Crossroads
comments: [northern soul]
|
| 2 |
recordlabel: RCA 40191 (UK)
chartposition: UK #45
writtenby: Richard Hewson
album: Mystery
|
| 3 |
recordlabel: Asylum 5067
chartposition: RandB #76
writtenby: Marvin Hamlisch and Dean Pitchford
album: [beat ballad]
comments: [from the movie D.A.R.Y.L.]
|
| 4 |
recordlabel: Hippodrome 103
chartposition: UK #83
writtenby: Bruce Roberts and Donna Summer
comments: [ballad]
|
| 5 |
recordlabel: Columbia 05424
chartposition: RandB #46
writtenby: Bill Withers
album: Watching You Watching Me
|
| 6 |
recordlabel: Polydor 790
chartposition: UK #6, US #7, US dance #4, AC #10, Rock #45
writtenby: M. Lindup, P. Gould, R. Gould, M. King, W. Badarou
album: World Machine
|
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recordlabel: Arista 104503
writtenby: Raymond Jones, Freddie Washington
album: Whitney Houston
|
| 1 |
recordlabel: Privaye 5630
chartposition: RandB #71
writtenby: R. Dixon, B. Wright, V. Thomas
|
| 2 |
recordlabel: Beverly Glen 2021
chartposition: RandB #74
writtenby: Donny Hathaway and Edward Howard
album: Someday We'll All Be Free
comments: [southern soul ballad]
|
| 3 |
recordlabel: Island 9870
chartposition: RandB #25, US AC #30
writtenby: David Pomeranz and Richard Marx
album: Durell Coleman
comments: [new jack swing]
|
| 4 |
recordlabel: Streetwise 1137
chartposition: RandB #86
writtenby: Maurice Starr and Michael Jonzun
album: Some Things Never Change
comments: [sweet soul love ballad]
|
| 5 |
recordlabel: RCA 14035
chartposition: RandB #85, US #18, US AC #17
writtenby: Daryl Hall
album: Big Bam Boom
|
| 6 |
recordlabel: Solar 69658
chartposition: RandB #17, US #106, UK #91
writtenby: Babyface (as Kenneth Edmonds) and Bo Watson
album: So Good
|
| 7 |
recordlabel: SRO 231
chartposition: RandB #85
writtenby: Anthony Watson, Paul Childs and Syl Parsons
comments: [Sweet Soul ballad]
|
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recordlabel: Urban Rock 919
writtenby: Ray Arlen
|
| 1 |
recordlabel: MCA 52622
chartposition: RandB #79
writtenby: Kevin McLin, Carl Dennis and Anatole Domino
album: Windjammer III
|
| --- |
recordlabel: Team Records 1001
writtenby: Leo Graham
album: Love Don't Change Overnight
comments: [southern soul ballad]
|
| 1 |
recordlabel: Columbia 05613
chartposition: RandB #49
album: You Might Be Surprised
|
| 2 |
recordlabel: Manhattan 20 0889 7
chartposition: US dance #1, RandB #20, UK #12
writtenby: Bruce Woolley, Simon Darlow, Stephen Lipson & Trevor Horn
album: Slave to the Rhythm
|
| 3 |
recordlabel: Epic 05267
chartposition: RandB #72
writtenby: Rosie Gaines
|
| 4 |
recordlabel: Motown 1813
chartposition: US Dance #12, UK #88
writtenby: Richard Scher and Lotti Golden
album: Fade In, Fade Out
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 5 |
recordlabel: RCA Victor 104472
chartposition: RandB #66, UK #9, US #18, US dance 10,
writtenby: Annie Lennox & Dave Stewart [David Allan Stewart]
album: Be Yourself Tonight
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